Querying your own database

Your entire database can be downloaded in a single file. Please see How to backup your data.

If you are familiar with administering databases, you may wish to rebuild the database into a local MySQL or MariaDb server. This may be for:

• Advanced reporting using SQL queries
• As an emergency backup, e.g. during outages at the data centre or network infrastructure.

This page provides some sample queries to help understand the underlying structure of the database.

A list of people

The types of Organisations and People are stored in the organisations_types table. The orgs/people are stored in the organisations table. A list of active volunteers can be found using:

SELECT orgtype_org_field_name

FROM organisations_types

WHERE orgtype_name_plural = 'Volunteers'

Which return 'org_volunteer'. Then use that to select from the organisations table:

SELECT *

FROM organisations

WHERE org_volunteer = 'Y' AND org_active = 'Y'